Mixed species exhibit ideas

1. Red-flanked duiker and secretary bird (flight cage, secretary birds generally do not eat mammals bigger than mongooses)
2. Japanese sika deer, Mandarin duck, and red-crowned crane
3. North American beaver and osprey (flight cage. Maybe add fish into beaver water feature or have water feature separate from beavers' with fish for osprey)
4. Chilean flamingo and southern pudu
5. Aldabra tortoise and Rodrigues flying fox
 
1. Chacoan peccary, greater rhea, nine-banded armadillo (unless any digging of holes may prove hazardous to the birds)
2. Gavial, Indian muntjac (gavials are piscivore specialists unlike the other crocodilians. Plus, gavials are a smaller species of crocodilian)
3. Bighorn sheep, American bison, white-tail deer (with rock formations onto which sheep can climb to get away, escape pens for deer to get away with passageways to small for bison)
4. Straw-colored fruit bat, aardvark
5. Turkey vulture, greater roadrunner, Gambel's quail, desert tortoise, black-tailed jackrabbit
6. Domestic donkey, crested porcupine (with escape enclosures), roe deer, mouflon (with rock formations onto which they can climb).
7. Brown pelican, harbor seal (with high rock formations onto which pelicans can fly to get away from the seals)
8. Bactrian camel, Sichuan takin, Przewalski's wild horse
9. Cheetah, black rhino (with escape enclosures, I know some zoos in Europe do this sort of mixing. It is less common if at all seen in North America.)
10. Fennec fox, Egyptian fruit bat.
 
iluvwhales said:
9. Cheetah, black rhino (with escape enclosures, I know some zoos in Europe do this sort of mixing. It is less common if at all seen in North America.)
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Boras Zoo does this if you want to take a look, the cheetahs have a sort of safe space which consists of a mound of rocks which the rhinos can't access. Apparently this mix works very well. Boras also has another amazing mixed exhibit in their savannah. African Elephants and Buffalo are mixed in with Giraffe and other typical African animals.
 
Gibbon05 said:
Boras Zoo does this if you want to take a look, the cheetahs have a sort of safe space which consists of a mound of rocks which the rhinos can't access. Apparently this mix works very well. Boras also has another amazing mixed exhibit in their savannah. African Elephants and Buffalo are mixed in with Giraffe and other typical African animals.
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I've looked at some pictures of Boras Zoo and have to say that they have some amazing looking enclosures and is in my opinion, one of the best zoos in the europe
 
Liam Graff said:
1.Giant Eland,Meerkat,Somali Ostrich,Hartman's Mountain Zebra.
2.Bush Dog,Hoffman's Two-Toed Sloth
3.Malayan Tapir,Siamang,Mandarin Duck
4.Greater Kudu,Okapi,Saddle-Billed Stork
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The fourth will probably lead to stressed out okapi and possibly also trampled storks (and definitively not any breeding of the storks which is a shame with a species bred only at a handful of institutions worldwide).

Siamang are just as other gibbon very bad cohabitants except when mixed with orangs.

Of these only the first seems semi-possible, though the meerkats digging might pose a threat to the hoof-stock. I also do not know the ecology of giant elands good enough to know wether they will be able to cope with the temperament of the zebra.
 
iluvwhales said:
1. Chacoan peccary, greater rhea, nine-banded armadillo (unless any digging of holes may prove hazardous to the birds)
2. Gavial, Indian muntjac (gavials are piscivore specialists unlike the other crocodilians. Plus, gavials are a smaller species of crocodilian)
3. Bighorn sheep, American bison, white-tail deer (with rock formations onto which sheep can climb to get away, escape pens for deer to get away with passageways to small for bison)
4. Straw-colored fruit bat, aardvark
5. Turkey vulture, greater roadrunner, Gambel's quail, desert tortoise, black-tailed jackrabbit
6. Domestic donkey, crested porcupine (with escape enclosures), roe deer, mouflon (with rock formations onto which they can climb).
7. Brown pelican, harbor seal (with high rock formations onto which pelicans can fly to get away from the seals)
8. Bactrian camel, Sichuan takin, Przewalski's wild horse
9. Cheetah, black rhino (with escape enclosures, I know some zoos in Europe do this sort of mixing. It is less common if at all seen in North America.)
10. Fennec fox, Egyptian fruit bat.
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1: digging might indeed be a problem on two fronts. Not only can holes be dangerous to the rheas, but the peccaries digging might also make armadillo tunnels unstable. I think this would be a bit too risky to try in the real world
2: might work
3: This has been done before I think, with enough space this should work fine
4: perfectly possible
5: The quails and the roadrunners together might pose a problem, especially with young quails. I also would be careful when combining the rabbits with the tortoise, not because they might kill each other but because active rabbits might cause stress for the tortoises.
6: Should be possible without much problems, the hoof-stock species have been combined in multiple wildlife-parks and porcupine with hoof-stock has been done before.
7: This would most probably work
8: With enough space this can work I think, but wild horses can be very dominant in an exhibit so this would need very careful monitoring and introductions.
9: Should be possible, but I would advice to use large enough enclosures to avoid conflicts. In smaller enclosures it is more likely for the cheetah to be cornered. A solution to this would be to have most of the edge fenced off using wooden poles from the rhinos so that the cheetah can run through but the rhinos can not.
10: This does sound risky to me, wouldn't take the risk
 
iluvwhales said:
1. Red-flanked duiker and secretary bird (flight cage, secretary birds generally do not eat mammals bigger than mongooses)
2. Japanese sika deer, Mandarin duck, and red-crowned crane
3. North American beaver and osprey (flight cage. Maybe add fish into beaver water feature or have water feature separate from beavers' with fish for osprey)
4. Chilean flamingo and southern pudu
5. Aldabra tortoise and Rodrigues flying fox
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Though I'm not a fan of pinioned birds, I do not see huge issues with most of these. The deer might trample the cranes, that's in general a risk with cranes (especially pinioned) and hoof-stock. Only the osprey seems like a problem to me. Not because of the mix with beavers, but in general they don't fare well in captivity. A species like American kestrels would be more appropriate.
 
HungarianBison said:
Giant pangolin, Pedetes capensis(I don't know the english name), Meerkat in not a night house.
Sloth bear, Grey langur
Okapi, Preuss's guenon, Pygmy hippo
Mandrill, Bongo, Red buffalo
European bison, Red deer, Wild boar
Babirusa, Anoa, Crested macaque
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1: Probably wouldn't work, pangolins are very hard to keep in captivity on their own let alone mixed with a bold species like meerkat. Meerkat with the hare probably would also lead to stressed hares.
2: Should work
3: Hippo and okapi probably wouldn't work unless in a very large exhibit.
4: Looks like asking for trouble, buffalo and bongo would make a bad mix for sure. The mandrils depends on the individuals, buffalo have been combined with drill successfully and drill with sitatunga so it might just work.
5: Given enough space, this would probably work. Has probably been done already in wildlife parks (deer and bison for sure, deer and boar as well).
6: That would most probably give problems. The macaques will probably prey on piglets and the male babirusa will probably harass and possibly even kill the other two species. Those three are simply species that are best kept alone.
 
Jarne said:
1: Probably wouldn't work, pangolins are very hard to keep in captivity on their own let alone mixed with a bold species like meerkat. Meerkat with the hare probably would also lead to stressed hares.
2: Should work
3: Hippo and okapi probably wouldn't work unless in a very large exhibit.
4: Looks like asking for trouble, buffalo and bongo would make a bad mix for sure. The mandrils depends on the individuals, buffalo have been combined with drill successfully and drill with sitatunga so it might just work.
5: Given enough space, this would probably work. Has probably been done already in wildlife parks (deer and bison for sure, deer and boar as well).
6: That would most probably give problems. The macaques will probably prey on piglets and the male babirusa will probably harass and possibly even kill the other two species. Those three are simply species that are best kept alone.
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Thank you for your opinion!
 
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